La Clochette Explained

La Clochette (The Little Bell) was a small spiritual magazine published monthly in French from 1901 to 1919 by a Catholic Church organization in Paris named La Ligue de la Sainte-Messe (The League of the Holy Mass). Father Esther Bouquerel (1855–1923) founded the organization and edited the magazine, which had approximately 8,000 subscribers. In December 1912, the magazine published the earliest known version of an anonymous prayer for peace, now widely but erroneously called the Prayer of Saint Francis.[1] [2] [3]

Notes and References

  1. Esther . Bouquerel . December 1912 . La Clochette . 12 . 285 . Belle prière à faire pendant la Messe . 7 March 2017.
  2. Book: Renoux, Christian . La prière pour la paix attribuée à saint François: une énigme à résoudre . Paris . Éditions franciscaines . 2001 . 2-85020-096-4 . 21–28.
  3. La Prière pour la Paix . Christophe-André . Marty . Le Gallican . January 2014 . 7 March 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160708223531/http://gallican.org/plapaix.htm . 8 July 2016 .